'Alabama has no shortage of outrage, but somehow we always direct it at the wrong targets,' columnist WarOnDumb writes. 'In Alabama, we memorialize failure. We penalize those who object. Meanwhile, actual accomplishments are free to be forgotten.' ➡️
Kyle Whitmire’s newsletter, “Alabamafication” examines the outsized influence of this very strange state, taking aim at corruption, cruelty, incompetence and hypocrisy while also seeking out those righteous folks making their state and country better places for all.If you’ve driven south along Interstate 65 at the state line with Tennessee, you’ve seen it. It’s hard not to. At the rest stop there, a Saturn 1B tells visitors they’ve crossed into Alabama.
If only the Sons of Confederate Veterans would take down their giant failure flag north of Prattville, we could keep this highway branding up all the way to the beach.After 44 years of weathering Alabama weather, the Saturn rocket isn’t safe for such a display,Fixing it could cost as much as $7 million, and we’re too cheap for that.
stop cities and counties — especially those with Black elected officials — from messing with Confederate lawn ornamentsIf Birmingham decides to move a monument, as it did in 2020, the courts have said it must pay a $25,000 fine to the state. It didn’t matter that folks got so fed up with it, they tried to tear it down. It didn’t matter, by finishing the job, Mayor Randall Woodfin probably saved somebody from getting crushed by the granite block.
That statue is there because our elected officials are fine with a monument to a monster in what should be a place of honor.
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